We all have our rituals. Swans and ducks migrate, the ones that aren’t riddled with H5N1 anyway.
We all have our rituals. Swans and ducks migrate, the ones that aren’t riddled with H5N1 anyway. At an appropriate season, starlets and cameramen cluster in Cannes. Canny financiers ‘sell in May and go away’. And invariably at a weekend around the time of the 2,000 Guineas I retreat to my study with a bottle of good malt, the floppy Raceform weekly formbook and Timeform’s latest chunky little bible, this year the Racehorses of 2005 (£70, post free, from Timeform, 25 Timeform House, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX1 1XF), in an attempt to find a few winners for the Flat racing season, a season which I refuse to take seriously until the time of the first Classic. So here goes with Ten To Follow between now and November.
At former footballer Mick Channon’s stable before the Guineas, as we watched his Flashy Wings on the gallops, somebody asked the great man if he had ever fancied being England manager instead.
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